I like the comment to the story, "...well Oklahoma is the most conservative evangelical state in the union so what does it really mean???"
Do liberal atheist communities not have drought?
After years of being dry and a couple of official drought years, I don't think the NPR show captured the true nature of droughts.
Next year is going to be the hard year, it takes years to recover from one dry summer. Where I live, last year was bad with no rain all summer and extreme heat. It was to the point that I was out of grass and was thinking that I wasn't going to have any water since the ponds were going to dry up. I seriously thought about not planting wheat because I couldn't afford to take the loss of a bad crop (but I gave in and got crop insurance for the first time and planted it)
Then it started raining and it rained over the fall and winter. By late winter, the ponds were overflowing and I was worried that the dams were going to be washed out. And, we harvested our best wheat crop ever in early summer.
Then the rain stopped right when the warm-season grasses started growing and it got hot, even hotter than last summer. By early August, the ponds had dried up almost as much as they had dried up by October of last year.
I was thinking about selling some cows and weaning the calves early when it rained an inch a couple of weeks ago, then it rained a couple more inches a week ago.
I didn't fully realize how stressed I was until that rain came and gave me a little breathing room.
Now, I've got a little growth on a failed sorghum crop so I can cut it for hay and get through the winter, which means I can hold off on selling some cows.
I'm not the most devout person around, but I had faith that it would eventually rain and if it doesn't ever rain again, I have faith that I will survive. That's one of the hardest things about drought, regardless of what the commenter thinks about Oklahomans.
I like the comment to the story, "...well Oklahoma is the most conservative evangelical state in the union so what does it really mean???"
ReplyDeleteDo liberal atheist communities not have drought?
After years of being dry and a couple of official drought years, I don't think the NPR show captured the true nature of droughts.
Next year is going to be the hard year, it takes years to recover from one dry summer. Where I live, last year was bad with no rain all summer and extreme heat. It was to the point that I was out of grass and was thinking that I wasn't going to have any water since the ponds were going to dry up. I seriously thought about not planting wheat because I couldn't afford to take the loss of a bad crop (but I gave in and got crop insurance for the first time and planted it)
Then it started raining and it rained over the fall and winter. By late winter, the ponds were overflowing and I was worried that the dams were going to be washed out. And, we harvested our best wheat crop ever in early summer.
Then the rain stopped right when the warm-season grasses started growing and it got hot, even hotter than last summer. By early August, the ponds had dried up almost as much as they had dried up by October of last year.
I was thinking about selling some cows and weaning the calves early when it rained an inch a couple of weeks ago, then it rained a couple more inches a week ago.
I didn't fully realize how stressed I was until that rain came and gave me a little breathing room.
Now, I've got a little growth on a failed sorghum crop so I can cut it for hay and get through the winter, which means I can hold off on selling some cows.
I'm not the most devout person around, but I had faith that it would eventually rain and if it doesn't ever rain again, I have faith that I will survive. That's one of the hardest things about drought, regardless of what the commenter thinks about Oklahomans.